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South Koreans who were forced to work for Japanese companies during World War II and their supporters protested a plan to resolve a longstanding dispute over their compensation, casting uncertainty over the ultimate success of a proposal to improve ties between Seoul and Tokyo. On Monday, South Korea’s foreign ministry said a local foundation would offer payments to three people who were sent to work for the companies, as well as 12 families of deceased former workers who had all won court rulings against the firms for compensation. In 2018, South Korea’s Supreme Court upheld the decisions.

In announcing the compensation plan Monday, South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin called cooperation between South Korea and Japan ‘incredibly important.’A South Korean fund will compensate Koreans forced to work in Japan during World War II, the South Korean government said Monday, part of an arrangement with the Japanese government to resolve differences between the two U.S. allies. The rapprochement boosts U.S. efforts to foster cooperation between its allies to counter China and North Korea.

Japan and South Korea are near an agreement to compensate Koreans forced to work in Japan during World War II, officials said, boosting U.S. efforts to foster cooperation between its allies to counter China and North Korea. Seoul is set to release a plan as early as Monday for a South Korean fund to pay plaintiffs who have won court cases against Japanese companies over forced labor, the officials said. South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol may later visit Tokyo, they said, although they cautioned that the talks aren’t finished and may still break down.

Three years into the pandemic, nearly everyone in Japan is wearing a mask most of the time in public, and in South Korea it is legally required indoors. Now these two Asian champions of mask-wearing say it is time to move on. Officials in Tokyo and Seoul on Friday called for easing of mask protocols, overriding concerns from some who say the practice still saves lives and keeps away a variety of ailments.

The U.S. and South Korea responded defiantly after North Korea tested an intercontinental ballistic missile and two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, saying they would extend their military exercises this week and return next year to large-scale field exercises. In Washington, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin condemned the tests in a press briefing at the Pentagon alongside his South Korean counterpart, Lee Jong-sup.

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